Peter Boy said: > up2date is still being quite unusable in some situations. Obviously it is > not able to cope with hight trafic and/or a slow response time. > > - the mirror selection feature is a progress, compared to FC1, but it is > still quite dumb in selecting mirrors. It doesn't use one in vicinity. > especially useless for non US users I suggest you either: 1) Use the appropriate mirrors file from the list (there are a whole bunch of them at http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/ ). 2) Read the documentation and create a local mirrors file that better suits your needs (/usr/share/doc/up2date-4.3.19/mirrors.txt) 3) Use yum, since you seem to prefer it. That doesn't mean up2date should be removed. -- William Hooper